A media company runs a multi-site indexer cluster with Site A and Site B. They set RF=3 and SRF=2. After a network partition, Site B becomes isolated from Site A for 30 minutes. During this time, the cluster master remains reachable from both sites. What happens to searchable data availability during the partition?

Site B continues to serve searches from its local copies, but new buckets created in Site A may not replicate to Site B until the partition heals.

Search is unavailable in Site B because the master cannot coordinate with Site A.

All searches fail because the cluster requires a majority of sites to be available.

The cluster master promotes a Site A peer to become the new primary for Site B buckets.

A multi-site indexer cluster has two sites with RF=3 and SRF=2. A peer in Site A fails. The cluster master promotes a copy from Site B to maintain RF. After promotion, the bucket has 2 copies in Site A and 1 copy in Site B. What is the SRF status?

SRF is satisfied because Site A has 2 copies.

SRF is satisfied because the total copies meet RF=3.

SRF is automatically adjusted to 1 for Site B.

SRF is violated because Site B has only 1 copy.

How are peer nodes assigned to sites in a multi-site indexer cluster?

By the search head based on the user's location.

By setting the site attribute in the peer node's configuration file.

By the license master based on the license type.

By the cluster master automatically based on network latency.

What is the purpose of the site replication factor in a multi-site indexer cluster?

It specifies the minimum number of copies of each bucket that must exist in each site.

It specifies the maximum number of peer nodes allowed in each site.

It specifies the total number of copies of each bucket that must exist across all sites.

It specifies the number of searchable copies of each bucket that must exist in each site.

In a multi-site indexer cluster, what is the relationship between the site replication factor and the overall replication factor?

The site replication factor is independent of the overall replication factor.

The site replication factor must be equal to the overall replication factor.

The site replication factor must be greater than the overall replication factor.

The overall replication factor must be greater than or equal to the sum of the site replication factors.

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A media company runs a multi-site indexer cluster with Site A and Site B. They set RF=3 and SRF=2. After a network partition, Site B becomes isolated from Site A for 30 minutes. During this time, the cluster master remains reachable from both sites. What happens to searchable data availability during the partition?
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A multi-site indexer cluster has two sites with RF=3 and SRF=2. A peer in Site A fails. The cluster master promotes a copy from Site B to maintain RF. After promotion, the bucket has 2 copies in Site A and 1 copy in Site B. What is the SRF status?
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